Update from The Writing House

Happy Spring! Here is the Monday Morning Blog!

Spring has finally arrived in Minnesota. We had a cold start to April, but at least the snow had started melting. That is until the weekend of April 13-15 when we had a good ole fashioned blizzard. The kind where it snows, snows and snows. Just when you think it was going to stop, it started up again. It didn’t stop until late Sunday night. We wound up with about 16 inches of snow at our house.

Then jump to the following weekend. We had 50 degree weather and the grass was turning green. We have a north facing deck at our condo, so things don’t melt as fast as we would like them to in front of our place. Here is my view last Monday, after our first spring like weather weekend. Looks like winter on our side and spring across the lot!

April was a busy reading and marketing month for me in the writing house. Here’s what happened

Happy 1st Birthday to The Hard Way. Can’t believe I published it a year ago this month. I ran a $.99 sale on Amazon.com for the e-book from April 11-15 to celebrate.

I attended an editing seminar which will help me with my upcoming editing project.

Beta read a novel for another Minnesota author, Christopher D. Schmitz, called Through the Darque Gates of Goth. It is the second book in Wolves of Tesseract series. Look for it to be published soon! Here is a link to Chris’ author website Christopher D. Schmitz for information about him and his books.

Monthly book club read, Beartown by Fredrik Backman. Great read about hockey and loyality to small town team and community. Our club had a great discussion about it over coffee.

I also did some fun reading including Patty Jane’s House of Curl by Lorna Landvik and A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa. It is always nice to just relax on the couch with a good book. An escape from the stresses of life, at least for a little while.

In May, I will be starting the next round of edits for The Bully’s Way to have it ready for an alpha read this fall. Looking forward to see where this editing journey takes me. Be sure to get your copy of The Hard Way so you can have it read before The Bully’s Way is published. My anticipated publishing date is October 2019. Here is my promo for it!

Looking for a good teen read? Be sure to pick up a copy of The Hard Way! It is available in e-book format on Amazon.com and paperback on both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.